WO2003024027A9 - Interface pour reseaux locaux d'entreprises - Google Patents

Interface pour reseaux locaux d'entreprises

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WO2003024027A9
WO2003024027A9 PCT/SE2002/001509 SE0201509W WO03024027A9 WO 2003024027 A9 WO2003024027 A9 WO 2003024027A9 SE 0201509 W SE0201509 W SE 0201509W WO 03024027 A9 WO03024027 A9 WO 03024027A9
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radio
digital
lan
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Ralf Schuh
Erland Sundberg
Bertil Verri
Tommy Arkner
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Telia Ab
Ralf Schuh
Erland Sundberg
Bertil Verri
Tommy Arkner
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Priority to DE60230778T priority patent/DE60230778D1/de
Priority to DK02765728T priority patent/DK1428351T3/da
Publication of WO2003024027A1 publication Critical patent/WO2003024027A1/fr
Priority to NO20040823A priority patent/NO334355B1/no
Publication of WO2003024027A9 publication Critical patent/WO2003024027A9/fr

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W92/00—Interfaces specially adapted for wireless communication networks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W84/00—Network topologies
    • H04W84/02—Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]
    • H04W84/10—Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
    • H04W84/12—WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W88/00—Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
    • H04W88/08—Access point devices

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  • the present invention relates in general to distribution of radio signals between terminals and Base Stations, BSs, via Local Area Networks, LAN, more particular to an interface that can handle combined digital and analogue Radio Frequency, RF, signals for transmission over fibre based LANs.
  • BSs Base Stations
  • LAN Local Area Networks
  • RF Radio Frequency
  • DAS Distributed Antenna Systems
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communications
  • LAN Local Area Network
  • GSM- ⁇ n-the-Net uses the existing LAN architecture by connecting pico base stations to the LAN.
  • the radio signal is distributed digitally in such a radio LAN architecture.
  • GSM-on-the-Net a special gateway is needed in order to ensure security from the intranet to the public network.
  • the number of transceiver units in a pico base station is currently limited to a maximum of two transceivers .
  • GSM-on-the-Net cannot make use of trunking efficiency.
  • Ethernet and Fibre Distributed DATA Interface the dominant digital transmission standards are IEEE 803.3 Gigabit Ethernet Standard and ANSI X3T12 FDDI Standard which are defined for Category 5 cable, copper twisted pair, CAT5, fibre and coax cabling. antennas .
  • the present invention relates to a common digital and radio signals distribution architecture using standard Local Area Network (LAN) architecture and equipment for distributing the radio signals to remote antennas.
  • LAN Local Area Network
  • the present invention is using a common interface for the digital and radio signal distribution.
  • This interface can solve multiple infrastructure problems by distributing radio signals (e.g. GSM, UMTS) between a Base Transceiver station (BTS) and its remote antennas over the fibre based LAN infrastructure.
  • the interface is integrated in the LAN equipments (e.g. Ethernet switch or Ethernet coax to fibre media converter) .
  • Fibre in general offers a huge bandwidth. and can accommodate both the digital and radio signal trans issio .
  • the present invention uses an integrated digital and analogue Radio Frequency (RF) interface for transmitting combined digital and analogue RF signals over fibre based LANs.
  • the RF signals are fed/received to/from optical transceiver (s) over a separate electrical RF port.
  • the digital and analogue RF signals are distributed over the fibre-cable LAN architecture.
  • Radio cell architecture can be built-up by connecting antennas to the electrical RF ports at the LAN equipment.
  • the architecture itself is transparent to the transmission of RF signals .
  • the present invention uses existing LAN architecture (cabling and devices) , which enables low cost radio signal distribution e.g. for Distributed Antenna Systems (DASs) in buildings.
  • the digital and radio signals are separated in the frequency domain or can be separated in the space domain by using different transceiver units in the LAN equipment or fibres in the cable.
  • the present invention is a Distribution of Radio Signals using Local Area Network Infrastructure (DoRSuLANI) here called the interface.
  • DoRSuLANI Local Area Network Infrastructure
  • One advantage by using this interface is that no gateways to the public network is needed, e.g. if compared with GSM- on-the-Net, because the radio and digital signals can be separated in the frequency domain or in the space domain by using different transceiver units in the LAN equipment.
  • the interface can also make use of trunking efficiency as the Base Station (BS) can be centralized.
  • BS Base Station
  • the invention allows a single cabling infrastructure with common access points.
  • the invention allows reduced installation, deployment and operation and maintenance (OAM) costs.
  • the LAN can be public or private.
  • Figure 1 shows an overview of the interface
  • Figure 2 shows a FDDI backbone network with interfaces, that allow distribution of the digital and radio signal to different buildings
  • Figure 3 shows a typical Ethernet LAN architecture within a building
  • Figure 4 shows measurement set-up for the combined simultaneous digital-radio transmission using standard
  • Figure 5 shows intermodulation attenuation for GSM and interfering CW signal transmission over the fibre link
  • Figure 6 shows BER versus received RF power for the GSM
  • Figure, 7 shows BER versus received optical power for 1
  • Figure 8 shows a link budget calculation for typical GSM in-building
  • Figure 9 shows a set-up using the interface with 4 antennas
  • Figure 10 shows path loss versus distance
  • Figure 11 shows second set-up for figure 9
  • Figure 12 shows third set-up for figure
  • Figure 13 shows fourth set-up for figure 9.
  • BTS Base Transceiver station CAT5 Category 5 cable, copper twisted pair
  • Fig. 1 shows an overview of interface 100, an optical interface, for the integrated digital and radio signal transmission.
  • the cable 118 is containing optical fibre (s), which distributes signals to LAN equipment at different locations or the same location, e.g. within a building or a campus area, see Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.
  • Each interface 100 has at least one common/integrated - standard optical transceiver unit (TRx) 102.
  • TRx common/integrated - standard optical transceiver unit
  • the radio signals can be fed/received to/from the optical units 106 over an external electrical RF port 104.
  • radio signal splitter s
  • combiner s
  • the RF port 104 is connected to a radio unit 112 over signal path 120, e.g. with coax cable.
  • the radio signal path could be a direct connection to the optical transceiver unit 102 but could also contain some radio frequency specific processing like: filters, amplifiers, splitters and combiners, duplexer, etc.
  • the interface 100 is transparent if no radio mode specific filters, amplifiers, etc, are used in radio unit 112.
  • a splitter 108 and signal combiners 110 are needed in order to separate the digital and radio signal.
  • the splitter and combiner may need filters in order to prevent signal distortion from the digital into the radio band and vice versa.
  • the base station (s) (BSs) (e.g. for GSM/UMTS) or the remote antenna unit(s) are connected over coax cables to the electrical RF In/Output port(s) 104.
  • the interface 100 is in general transparent to the digital and radio signal transmission within the bandwidth of the optical link. Low bit rate data transmission for alarm and controlling function between the base station and the connected LAN equipment may be utilised over:
  • a digital interface 116 connects the LAN cards (Gigabit Ethernet card or the interface card 100) to the motherboard, back plane, of the LAN Central Processing Unit (CPU), e.g. switch, hub, router, etc.
  • the motherboard is normally fulfilling tasks like: controlling of the LAN cards, encryption, addressing, digital signal processing, etc.
  • the alarming and controlling function in case of failure could be implemented processed in the motherboard.
  • Fig. 2 shows a FDDI backbone network 200 with interface 100 that allows distribution of the digital and radio signal to different buildings A, B, and C that are connected via an FDDI ring 222.
  • the interface 100 is integrated in the FDDI equipment 202 and 218.
  • Unit 202 can be a FDDI switch or router.
  • the switch 202 is a router that is connected to a public Wide Area Network (WAN) 212 over a firewall 206.
  • the unit 218 could be an FDDI switch, router or concentrator.
  • WAN Wide Area Network
  • the unit 218 could be an FDDI switch, router or concentrator.
  • RF output signal is fed into the interface card 100 located in the FDD router 202. After the electrical to optical conversion in the interface (s) 100 the radio signal is, together with the digital signal, transmitted to the different buildings A, B, and C in the campus area.
  • the radio signal can be in general further distributed, as shown in Fig. 3, using e.g. an Ethernet fibre architecture.
  • the Ethernet switch/router 208 in building A is connected to the radio base station over an interface 100 in the FDDI equipment 202.
  • the FDDI concentrator 218 is connected to application servers 210 and to remote antennas 220 over the interface (s) 100. More than one antenna can be connected to one interface 100 by using either external or internal splitter/combiner.
  • the interface 100 in general is applicable to any LAN architecture, e.g. a mixture of Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, when deploying fibre for the data transmission.
  • Fig. 3 shows an example of the interface 100 within an Ethernet infrastructure, see also Fig. 2 building A.
  • the Ethernet switch 208 in location A.l is connected over the FDDI router 202 to the radio base station but could be in general directly connected to the radio base station 204 over coax cable. If the Ethernet devices are equipped with interface (s) 100 the radio signal can be distributed within the building to different locations A.l and A.2.
  • the digital and radio signals may use:
  • Location A.l comprising a firewall 206, which is connected to Internet (WWW) 312, the base station (BS) 204, e.g. GSM/UMTS, connected to the GSM network 214 another Ethernet switch 208, another application server 210, and computers 216.
  • the base station (BS) 204 e.g. GSM/UMTS
  • the GSM network 214 another Ethernet switch 208, another application server 210, and computers 216.
  • the interface 100 at the stationary terminal could be, e.g. an external fibre- to-coax media converter box.
  • Different mobiles 308, which are connected to the base station over the remote antennas, are indicated in the figure. If the computers 216 intend to send radio signals they are connected to the interface 100 in the Ethernet switches 208 otherwise the computers 216 are connected direct to the Ethernet switches 208.
  • a portable laptop 304 is physically connected to a mobile terminal 308, such as GSM/UMTS terminal, which in its turn is in contact with the base station 204 via the concentrator 202.
  • the Ethernet equipment 208 in location A.2 is connected to the Ethernet equipment 208 in location A.l over the interface 100.
  • the Ethernet switch in location A.2 connects further to a repeater/router/switch 314 in location A.3 over interfaces 100 at both locations.
  • the repeater/router/switch 314 in location A.3 connects to a stationary IP telephone 302, and a stationary computer 216 (in radio mobiles are often called terminals ! ) .
  • Remote antennas are connected to the interfaces 100 in location A.2 and A.3
  • the interface 100 could in general support multiple radio systems over a single interface 100 if the radio systems work at different frequencies, e.g. GSM operating at 1.8 GHz and UMTS operating at 2 GHz .
  • the radio signal may need external amplifiers, filters and combiners for the radio uplink and downlink between the interface 100 and the remote antennas .
  • the interface 100 can be built in different ways:
  • the interface 100 has more than one optical transceiver unit 102.
  • One TRx unit 102 could be used for the digital transmission and one for the radio transmission.
  • Two optical TRx units may be built in for redundancy purposes .
  • Each optical TRx unit 102 has its own Rx and Tx optical output for the transmit and receive paths although only one optical fibre may be used as the signal can be split and combined in the optical domain using wavelength division multiplexing technology.
  • the interface 100 is similar to a standard digital LAN equipment card (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet card), which can be plugged in to the motherboard of the LAN switch/router (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet switch) . It is also possible to integrate the interface 100 in external LAN media converters (optical-to-electrical converter) . In Fig. 3 like in Fig. 2 only one interface 100 is shown at each Ethernet equipment, for clarity, although for every point- to-point connection between Ethernet devices a separate interface card 100 is needed.
  • a standard digital LAN equipment card e.g. Gigabit Ethernet card
  • the interface 100 is similar to a standard digital LAN equipment card (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet card), which can be plugged in to the motherboard of the LAN switch/router (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet switch) . It is also possible to integrate the interface 100 in external LAN media converters (optical-to-electrical converter) . In Fig. 3 like in Fig. 2 only one interface 100
  • radio signal processing can be implemented in the radio unit 112 (e.g. filtering, amplification, etc) .
  • This radio signal processing could be done at RF or at an intermediate frequency. If it is done at an intermediate frequency up- and down converters are needed.
  • the radio signal could be sent at an intermediate frequency over the fibre network, using e.g. frequency down converter at the LAN interface 100 connected to the base station and frequency up converters at the interfaces 100 connecting to the remote antenna units . At intermediate frequencies the radio signal experiences less loss in the optical link.
  • an intermediate frequency is used to distribute radio signals between the base station and remote antennas .
  • the RF signal uses an input and output radio frequency port 104. It could also be just a single RF connector and the transmit/receive signal could be split in the radio signal path 120 using radio duplexers.
  • Ethernet based Metropolitan Area Networks MANs
  • Ethernet based MANs show a growing popularity. Similar to Fig. 2 an Ethernet based Fibre-to-the-Subscriber (FTTS) architecture can be used to distribute radio signals, e.g. to individual houses/buildings A, B, and C, using the interface 100.
  • FTTS Fibre-to-the-Subscriber
  • a set-up according to Fig. 4 has been used for showing how the interface works.
  • the interface has been made using standard Gigabit Ethernet LAN equipment. Penalty free simultaneous GSM-1800 and 1 Gbit/s digital data transmission are established over the same optical link in the set-up in Fig. 4.
  • GSM-1800 and 1 Gbit/s digital data transmission are established over the same optical link in the set-up in Fig. 4.
  • In the Gigabit Ethernet when using multi-mode fibres, fibre lengths up to 550 meters may be used. This is the minimum operational range requirement for operation at short wavelengths of 850 nm.
  • Multi-mode fibre although having higher losses and dispersion compared to single-mode fibre, allows the use of potential cheap optical transceiver units.
  • the interface in general can be used for any type of fibre, laser and radio system.
  • the multi-mode fibre in combination with Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) and the simultaneous digital - radio transmission puts the highest constraints on the interface link budget.
  • the link performance can be expected to be better for such fibre lengths.
  • a transmission from GSM-1800 and 1 Gigabit/s digital data over a single optical link using 600 meters MM fibre has been used.
  • From the maximum input power, loss and noise, Fig. 7, of the fibre radio system a link budget calculation has been done for a typical GSM in-building system considering cell-size per antenna and radio path loss for different indoor environments.
  • the fibre radio system like used in the set-up showed to have sufficient dynamic range for typical GSM in-building distributed antenna systems even in the case if more than one carrier is send over the link.
  • a low-cost commercially available un-cooled 850 nm VCSEL and PIN photodiode with preamplifier are used, e.g. Mitel 1A448 SC-2A, 8C478 SC-2A. These components are designed for Gigabit Ethernet applications.
  • the MMF length is 600 in order to comply with the minimum range requirements in the lOOOBase-SX Gigabit Ethernet recommendations.
  • the MMF is Coming's InfiniCor 600 multi- mode 50/125 Om fibre designed for Gigabit Ethernet transmission, 600 m at 850 nm using laser sources.
  • the 1 Gigabit/s non-return-to-zero pseudorandom bit sequence signal, PRBS 2 23 - 1, Anritsu MP 1604B, and the GSM radio signal operating at 1800 MHz, Ericsson RBS 2202, are combined using a 6 dB power combiner operating from DC - 2 GHz.
  • the bit error rate (BER) of the digital signal was measured after low pass filtering and amplification using a bit error test set, Anritsu MP 1605B.
  • the data transmission speed of 1 Gbit/s was chosen as the available low pass filters had a cut-off frequency of about 1 GHz.
  • the transmitter site it was necessary to limit the output spectrum of the digital signal entering the GSM band, and at the receiver site to limit the GSM signal to enter the broadband receiver of the bit error test set.
  • the BER of the radio signal was measured with an Ericsson test mobile station (TEMS) for GSM.
  • the circulator separated the radio downlink and uplink path.
  • the remote antenna would be normally connected to the circulator output as indicated in the figure.
  • the dynamic range of the optical link is calculated.
  • the dynamic range is then compared with dynamic range requirements measured at typical indoor GSM Distributed Antenna System (DAS) installations.
  • DAS Distributed Antenna System
  • the 1 dB compression point is at ⁇ 5dBm RF input power to the laser
  • the intermodulation attenuation of the link is measured by applying a GSM signal and an interfering CW signal at 30dB below the power level of the wanted signal (GSM 05.05 paragraph 4.7.2. reference [GSM specification GSM 05.05]).
  • This measurement is relevant for the downlink as the non- linear elements in the transmitter path cause distortion if more than one RF channel is transmitted.
  • the standard requires the IMD product not to exceed -70dBc or -36dBm whichever is the higher.
  • Fig. 5 shows the measured IMD power versus the input power of the wanted GSM signal.
  • a post-amplifier with a gain of ⁇ 34 dB after the receiver has been used to boost the output power. It can be seen that the maximum RF input power to the laser should be ⁇ 1 dBm in order not to exceed the -36dBm maximum allowed IMD.
  • the blocking characteristic is a measure of the uplink ability to receive a wanted signal at its channel frequency in the presence of a strong unwanted signal, below a specified limit, on other frequencies without degradation of the performance.
  • the fibre link in the uplink can be considered as the input "amplifier" to the base station receiver, and because a GSM-1800 BS is used in this set-up, the blocking characteristics are measured according to the GSM 05.05 specification, section 5.1.
  • the signal level of a wanted GSM signal is set 3 dB above the BS receiver sensitivity limit (including the interface link with 600-meter MM fibre) and the unwanted sine wave (800 kHz away from the GSM signal) signal level is increased until the BER shows impairments.
  • the power of the unwanted sine wave could be increased up to ⁇ 5 dBm, at the input of the laser, without impairing the BER in the wanted GSM signal.
  • the BER penalty of the fibre link for the digital and radio transmission has been measured, in order to understand if the link caused distortions degrade the radio and optical receiver sensitivity levels.
  • the BER of the 1 Gbit/s digital signal versus optical received power is shown in Fig. 6.
  • the optical attenuator after the laser was used to reduce and balance the received power.
  • the results are shown for the fibre back-to-back case, ⁇ 7 m MM fibre, with the GSM signal switched off and switched on, and for the 600 m MM fibre with the GSM signal switched on.
  • No penalty could be observed for the simultaneous digital and radio signal transmission.
  • the measured BER for the 600 m MM fibre with simultaneous radio transmission showed slightly, better receiver sensitivity than the back-to-back cases. This difference could also be observed by repeating the measurements .
  • One reason for this observation may be the restricted laser launch condition used in the set-up, as equilibrium mode distribution may be not reached over such a short fibre length.
  • the achieved receiver sensitivity is ⁇ -15.5 dBm for a BER of 10 "11 .
  • BER measurement on the GSM 1800 signal the optical attenuator was set to zero as the electrical attenuator in front of the TEMS receiver was used to reduce and balance the received signal level (RxLev) .
  • the raw BER in the radio downlink was measured on the radio broadcast channel .
  • Fig. 7 shows the BER as a function of received power for back-to-back case using coaxial cable, coax cable ⁇ 6 m, 600 m MM fibre with the digital signal switched off and with the radio and digital signal running simultaneously. No BER penalty is observed for the simultaneous radio and digital transmission over the 600 m MMF.
  • the fibre back-to-back transmission showed similar BER values to the 600 m MM fibre transmission and the measurement points have been omitted in the figure for clarity.
  • the reference sensitivity level for GSM 1800 terminals and base stations is -102 and -104 dBm respectively, with the maximum BER depending on the type of channel, e.g. data channel BER ⁇ 0.1%, /3/.
  • the back-to- back case using coax cable showed slightly larger BERs than the radio over fibre transmission. This difference is within the resolution of the used TEMS equipment.
  • the ldB compression point limits the maximum input power to the laser. From the maximum input power, loss and noise figure of the fibre radio system we could do a link budget calculation for a typical GSM in-building system, as shown in Fig. 8. In the link budget calculation is made for the loss and noise of the signal from one optical feeder (interface 100) when considering 4 remote antennas, see Fig. 9.
  • the radio uplink limits the maximum path loss for the fibre radio system (Fig. 4) to about 82 dB.
  • the link budget as given in Fig. 8 is just an indication and could be optimised, for example by carefully placing of the remote antenna units in order to prevent high signal levels at the radio uplink in order to increase the gain in the first amplifier.
  • the path loss can be estimated using the Multiple Wall Model as described in the COST Action 231 [COST Action 231, "Digital mobile radio towards future generation systems," final report 1999.].
  • COST Action 231 "Digital mobile radio towards future generation systems," final report 1999.].
  • the maximum cell radius for 82 dB path loss is about 20 m.
  • cell radii between ⁇ 15 to -25 m are quite common.
  • the system link budget can be increased by about 6 dB if using separate optical transceiver units for the digital and radio transmission. If transmitting more than one GSM carrier and if using just one laser the RF input power has to be decreased by ⁇ 20xlog (icarriers) , in order to prevent signal clipping.
  • the interface architecture is in general scalable to any future LAN standard, as the radio and digital signal may be fed to separate optical transceiver units within the LAN equipment, e.g. one interface 100 with multiple 102 interfaces.
  • the optical transceivers and fibres will be able to support higher digital data rates. This in turn will be beneficial to interface, as e.g. the link budget for the radio transmission will increase.
  • the interface can be used for future radio standards.
  • Fig. 11 shows how the radio signal from a GSM/UMTS base station may be feed to numerous interface 100 cards in the LAN equipment using a external 4/4 multicasting matrix.
  • a star architecture can be built up with remote antennas connected to the LAN equipment with interface (s) 100.
  • s interface
  • Fig. 12 shows an example how external media converters designed for LAN transmission may be used to integrate the interface 100 with remote antennas.
  • Fig. 13 shows one set-up where the radio and digital signal origin from the same interface 100 but using separate transmitter and fibre pairs.
  • the fibre pairs do not have to be terminated at the same interface 100 they could be terminated at some other location.
  • the optical link with the radio signal may be e.g. directly spliced to another interface 100 optical link.

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Abstract

L'invention se rapporte à une interface radiofréquence (RF) numérique et analogique intégrée conçue pour émettre des signaux RF numériques et analogiques combinés sur des réseaux locaux d'entreprises (LAN) de fibres optiques. Les signaux RF sont acheminés vers un ou plusieurs émetteurs-récepteurs optiques (102) et/ou reçus de ces derniers par un port RF électrique (104) séparé. Les signaux RF numériques et analogiques sont distribués par un câble à fibres optiques (118). L'architecture elle-même ne fait pas obstacle à la transmission de signaux RF. L'interface est intégrée dans une installation LAN, soit dans Ethernet ou FDDI, et permet la distribution des signaux à différents bâtiments ou à différents endroits dans un même bâtiment.
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